Ricky Ho and I are busy at the UC ... pulling our hair out. There
are no certification exams on Monday but we found all sorts of
network glitches. The Hyatt had some network ports blocked that
just happened to be the ones we use for online exams. And the Sun
Remote Lab Data Center had a glitch over the weekend that kept
the virtual images from starting.

The picture is from Kai Voigt's tutorial on DBA certification.
The room is full and I pop n and out between 'hair pulling'
sessions. The attendees are asking good questions and I am sure
we will have some new certified DBAs by the end of the
conference.

If you have attended the latest two MySQL Users Conference
and Expo, you will know Sheeri. She was awarded for two years in a row
community contributor of the year. And she is seriously
determined to see someone else on stage next year. That's why
she has been pushing other people toward the community
scenes, paving the way for other contributors to surface.

But, you know, Sheeri is really good, and we have been
trying to hire her, without much success. So we decided
that since she is such a great catalyst, we should let her
run part of the show. Embedded in the next MySQL Users
Conference and Expo, there will be a MySQLCamp, of
which she will be fully in charge.

This past week was the annual MySQL Users’ Conference. It was my
fourth time attending the conference, my second as a MySQL-er,
and my first as a Sun employee.

The conference was very well attended with many more people than
last year. Overall, I’d say it was a great success.

I work on the Backup project for MySQL and I must say it was a
very strange experience being in the spotlight of so much
controversy concerning the announcement made about making some
backup features enterprise only releases.

While there was a lot of blogging expressing the general distaste
for the suggestion of making some features of backup enterprise
only (as opposed to free), most of these comments seemed to come
from a relatively small number of people.

I presented the Backup session and led the Birds of a Feather
session on Backup. I must say that the sentiments of the bloggers
was not represented in the audience of these sessions. I …

This past week was the annual MySQL Users’ Conference. It was my
fourth time attending the conference, my second as a MySQL-er,
and my first as a Sun employee.

The conference was very well attended with many more people than
last year. Overall, I’d say it was a great success.

I work on the Backup project for MySQL and I must say it was a
very strange experience being in the spotlight of so much
controversy concerning the announcement made about making some
backup features enterprise only releases.

While there was a lot of blogging expressing the general distaste
for the suggestion of making some features of backup enterprise
only (as opposed to free), most of these comments seemed to come
from a relatively small number of people.

I presented the Backup session and led the Birds of a Feather
session on Backup. I must say that the sentiments of the bloggers
was not represented in the audience of these sessions. I …

This past week was the annual MySQL Users’ Conference. It was my
fourth time attending the conference, my second as a MySQL-er,
and my first as a Sun employee.

The conference was very well attended with many more people than
last year. Overall, I’d say it was a great success.

I work on the Backup project for MySQL and I must say it was a
very strange experience being in the spotlight of so much
controversy concerning the announcement made about making some
backup features enterprise only releases.

While there was a lot of blogging expressing the general distaste
for the suggestion of making some features of backup enterprise
only (as opposed to free), most of these comments seemed to come
from a relatively small number of people.

I presented the Backup session and led the Birds of a Feather
session on Backup. I must say that the sentiments of the bloggers
was not represented in the audience of these sessions. I …

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